• Location: Glendale CA
• Year Founded: 2002
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JustHost Review

JustHost has become one of the more popular web hosting services available. They have done this by not only emphasizing affordability, but also reliability. They offer both shared hosting and reseller hosting, with several different plans for each. Here is a closer look at what JustHost offers, as well as some potential benefits and drawbacks.

Pricing

The pricing will change based upon what length of contract you sign. You can opt to pay monthly or get a contract for several years. The advertised prices are $3.45/month for the JustPlan and $6.95/month for JustPlan Premium. The features are exactly the same for both price points, the only difference is that with the regular plan, you get 1 free domain and with the Premium plan, you get 3 free domains. Their reseller hosting has 4 different packages at the following prices: $19.95, $24.95, $49.95, and $89.95. The differences among these plans are the: disk space and bandwidth that is included.

Features

There are a variety of features included with a JustHost package. Here is a look at some of the features that are included:

• Unlimited – disk space, domains, sub-domains, POP3 email accounts, FTP accounts, and MySQL databases.
• Supports – FrontPage, custom cronjobs, PHP Nuke, 1 click install (Joomla, Wordpress, b2evolution), PHP 5, Perl 5, Python, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Flash, Shockwave, and Javascript.
• Technology – Quad processor servers, Linux OS, backup batter bay, backup generator, biometric security, etc/
• 99% Uptime Guarantee

Potential Benefits

1. Reliability – JustHost has a guaranteed uptime of 99%, which ensures that your website is always online. This is done with load balancing to ensure that there is always a server with resources that can be made available to you. It also acts a backup in case that one server goes down, because the other can pick up the slack.
2. cPanel/Fantastico – Every JustHost account comes with cPanel as the control panel as well as Fantastico to make sure that installing open source scripts can be done in one click. This makes creating and maintaining a website easy.
3. Reseller Accounts – Every reseller account includes cPanel for every client, free WHM client manager, free Enom domain reseller accounts, Free billing system and client manager through ClientExec, and free WHMCS.

Potential Drawbacks

1. Windows – If you want to work in a Windows based environment, then JustHost does not offer a solution for you. All of their servers are Linux based, which may cause problems for some resellers.
2. Customer Support – As with all major hosting companies, there may be a support issue in some cases. While most customer support issues seem to either be exaggerated or seem to be based on unrealistic investigations, there is always a chance that support may not be responsive enough when you need it most. Many of the complaints seem to be after a server unexpectedly crashed and websites needed to be rebuilt.

JustHost seems to be a fairly solid web hosting service. They offer a variety of features at a consistently low price. As with all web hosting services, there may be some potential drawbacks to keep in mind, however there are a number of potential advantages as well.

Read what current and former customers of JustHost web hosting service have to say about the features, customer service, and more.